Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The picture?  I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me. I'm going to jump back here a bit because I managed to trace down another significant figure from a lineage I've already discussed. Bishop Richard, Duc de Palatine was an Australian spiritual teacher and Gnostic bishop who played a crucial role in bringing the alternative sacramental movement to the United States, and strongly influenced both of the bishops who consecrated John Gilbert. Born Ronald Powell in 1916, he became a member of the Theosophical Society and then a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church. After the Second World War he moved to Britain and founded the Pre-Nicene Christian Church, one of the major fountainheads of Gnostic Christian spirituality in the English-speaking world, and later traveled widely in the USA and elsewhere, teaching students, ordaining priests, and consecrating bishops, until his death in 1977. I've recently had the chance to study more of his writings and have discovered that he was much more influential a source for the Gnostic material I received than I'd realized -- so he's this week's honoree.

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***This Magic Monday is now CLOSED. See you next week!***

Comments

[ecosophia]

1) I dislike killing things when I don't have some good reason to do so. When moths get into my apartment, for example, I catch them in an old rice-measure cup and put them outside. (They've gotten used to that; the last couple of summers, I've literally had moths come fluttering over and land on the desk in front of me, and wait patiently for me to take them to the window and send them on their way.) I'm perfectly willing to eat meat, and I've slaughtered animals for food, but I insist on doing it in as quick and painless a way as possible -- I've always felt that a food animal should only have one bad day in its life! Dying between my teeth does not qualify; besides, oysters are so much tastier when breaded and fried. ;-)

2) That among other things. There are also a lot of bloodborne diseases these days, and I'm far from confident that the medical industry does adequate screening.

[(Anonymous)]

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

The ARCHDRUID And His TRAINED MOTHS!

Tickets Available Now

No Matinee Performances

—Princess Cutekitten

[ecosophia]

If I did have a legion of trained moths at my command, that would potentially make me a superhero, if an eccentric one. The problem is that I'd then probably be...Mothman!

(And I've never even been to Point Pleasant, WV -- though I hear it's a nice place.)

[(Anonymous)]

I have been to Pt Pleasant. Coming upon the Mothman statue for the first time was a complete surprise to me. As a northerner, I had no idea what it represented. I figured "wild & wonderful" W. Virginia was just plain WEIRD!

[ecosophia]

John Keel's The Mothman Prophecies was one of the books I adored in my teen years -- admittedly it's a classic of American paranormal literature, but it was also a great book if you're desperate to believe the world isn't as boring as the education system and the media insist it must be. So I knew about Point Pleasant long before I left the west coast!

[(Anonymous)]

When I got around to reading Keel's book a few months later, I discovered quite a synchronicity. One of the Mothman sightings Keel relates was on the highway more or less in front of the apartment I was renting: The apartment was across the highway from the golf course.

[(Anonymous)]

A New Weird TV series from Brazil titled Invisible City has a character who commands butterflies.
A superhero druid who travels on a cloud of moths isn't that far out, especially now that effects are affordable for TV shows...
Do you have any friends at DC or Marvel?
Also, the premise that mythical beings are all around us and never really went away when modernity arrived is a rather hopeful sign, yes?
Rhydlyd

[ecosophia]

Oog. I'll pass; I like my mythic beings free from the trappings of television...

[jpc_w]

There is[*] a Marvel superhero called Doctor Druid.

[*] Depending on current resurrection status and sales figures.

[ecosophia]

He's been killed and resurrected quite a bit, hasn't he?



And I'll pass on the spandex. One of the great advantages of Druidry is that Druids get to wear nice loose comfortable robes that don't show off, say, a bit of a pot belly. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, it’s quite pleasant.

—Princess Cutekitten